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investigative reporter / OSINTer (english-language editor @crimew.gay, contributor @geoconfirmed.org @virtualstreets.org etc.) ey/they/it/any give me tips/contact me on signal: rhinozz.1337 my previous work: https://muckrack.com/ryan-fae/portfolio/list

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 24d

my signal is rhinozz.1337, and @crimew.gay's is nyancrimew.01. tip to us!

cyber professional @permadeath.com · 25d

for every 1 unauthorized material that journalists don't obtain, gay furry hackers will obtain 69 unauthorized materials.

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

www.washingtonpost.com

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 15h

mass prosecution is great! thanks so much

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Margaret Manto @margaretmanto.bsky.social · 18h

SCOOP: Here's a breakdown of the 982 RIF'd HHS employees by division, per an HHS guidance that was reviewed by NOTUS:

CDC -- 596 employees
SAMHSA -- 125
HRSA -- 99
OASH -- 55
ACF -- 47
ASPR -- 41
ASA -- 18
ASPA -- 1

Full story w/ @oriana.bsky.social:

www.notus.org/health-scien...

Trump Administration Admits It Laid Off Twice as Many HHS Employees as Intended

A new filing in court said the extra layoffs were due to “data discrepancies and processing errors.”

www.notus.org

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 16h

there's equivalents in other languages, too. in Italian, 'maxiproceso' was used to refer to macrojuicios targeting organized crime syndicates.

the difficulty with something direct — macrotrial, megatrial — is that journalists already use those to refer to large trials/trials of the century

ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 16h

first time ever i've heard a word in spanish i don't know even a vague equivalent to in english.

anyone know a translation for 'macrojuicio'? it's a trial of a large amount of defendants. see, for instance, the May 1998 trial of 117 Bubi people for a January rebellion against the Obiang regime.

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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 1d

On a Saturday night I stumbled across something on the internet that made me feel like ****** my pants. A giant dataset of real surveillance operations targeting 1000s of people across nearly every country. Unraveling it and the mysterious company behind it has consumed 1.5 years of my life

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 23h

holy shit, Gabriel! what a story. phenomenal, phenomenal reporting

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 1d

start infodumping silly!! i need the whole history down STAT

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 1d

yeah yeah i'm sure there's more taco bell knowledge in that thinker of urs

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 1d

taco bell historian here

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

transnews.network/p/california...

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 1d

worst press release of 2025 award goes to:

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 3d

hbd emily!!

ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 4d

king george iii would be appalled

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 4d

this is the happiest i've ever seen someone living in the UK be

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 4d

i'm seeing everyone i didn't know cared about baseball suddenly begin to melt into one big Soup and it's outing them as baseball fans and the big folks up top are gonna call the soup Baseball Soup in their honor

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 4d

NEWS: I wish for death’s sweet release

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 4d

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 4d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 4d

if the mets were in the mariners' position fuck yeah i would stay up

ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 4d

@miawong.bsky.social how's it feel

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 4d

my goat

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 5d

It's strange seeing a bunch of outlets pub stories about Thiel's antichrist lectures and label them as exclusives. For one, they aren't exclusive if a source offered the same material to half the tech press.

It's also kind of silly for folks just to parrot Thiel when he's saying this:

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 5d

genuinely cannot believe this is true

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 6d

Dabo Swinney, Shane Beamer, and Scott Satterfield all get comped country club memberships. FOIAball got their initiation fees and invoices.

Plus, we obtained actual NIL data from the CSC.

This week's FREE newsletter is literally jam-packed with scoops.

foiaball.beehiiv.com/p/nil-go-dat...

Head coaches get country club memberships—here's what it costs

Initiation fees and invoices for Dabo Swinney and more. Plus, NIL GO numbers.

foiaball.beehiiv.com

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ryan fae @ryan.staticnoi.se · 5d

very cute hed

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 5d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 6d

I think we've set a new national record for glazing per capita in this cabinet meeting

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